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...addition to these theatric and literary sources, every member of Marceau’s company has some training in dance as well, and this background is evident in the grace with which the cast members carry themselves onstage, regardless of specific attributes of character. The dance skills of the company are most explicitly displayed in the court dances of “The Masquerade Ball” and in the smoothly articulated unison movements of monks in “The Wandering Monk...
...tell us, not quite ironically, “though I grew up in the ghetto and my niggers all sell drugs.” It’s a jarring and crude departure from his past work, exacerbated by the uninspired samples which ride aimlessly in the background of his spoken word...
Hausammann has an extensive background in human resources, although not in the arena of higher education. She has served as the director of human resources at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) since 2001, and prior to that as the senior vice president for human resources and communications at Thomson Financial...
With twelve seconds to go, the players reentered the pool after a brief time-out. With drums from the MIT fans beating in the background, the Crimson and the Engineers prepared themselves for a final battle...
...main character, Albert—played by the intense young actor Jason Schwartzman, best known for his debut role as Max Fischer in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore—is a fledgling activist trying to use poetry to help protect a local marsh. In the background looms the specter of consumerism in the form of Huckabees, a department store chain planning on wiping away Albert’s beloved wetlands...